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Food & Drink
“I think hot dog stands are great unifiers”: This guy is obsessed with Toronto’s street meat
He insists that our hot dogs outshine New York’s and Chicago’s
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Food & Drink
Hot dog! This new Junction spot specializes in top-notch street meat
Tino’s is all about those tube steaks
Food & Drink
After 40 years, a Toronto-based hot dog company with a cult following is back
Kwinter’s Hot Dogs will hit stores in time for Canada Day barbecues
Food & Drink
Where to Eat Cheap in Toronto: The best ways to fill up for $10 or less
We scoured the city’s new takeout spots and discovered 20 delicious ways to dine for less
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City News
What’s on the menu at Peaches, Parkdale’s new queer-friendly sports bar with bubble hockey
Including hot dogs, nachos and pitchers of beer (but also steak and cocktails)
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 10 best hot dogs to scarf down this summer, ranked
Our picks for the city's top dogs, from orthodox to outlandish
Food & Drink
Hot Plate: Eight hot dogs you need to eat this summer
From bacon wrappings and chilli cheese to brie and blueberry jam
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What’s on the menu at Woofdawg, a new takeout counter in the west end serving house-made hot dogs
It started life as a hot dog cart
Food & Drink
10 of Toronto’s most hilariously dressed hot dogs
Ranked from "wiener misdemeanor" to "hot diggity!"
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Craft Dogs on King Street is closed
The fancy dog shop, home to some of the city's most lovingly crafted street meat (including the Rob Ford–inspired "Crack...
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Here’s where to score a free wiener tomorrow
National Hot Dog Day isn't an officially sanctioned holiday, and it isn't exactly "national" in scope, but it is an opportunity to...
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Introducing: Craft Dogs, a new place for artisanal street meat on King East
Name: Craft Dogs Neighbourhood : St. Lawrence Contact Info: 95 King St. E., 647-748-2033, craftdogs.com Owners: Craig Smith, Brian...
City News
Best Bets: unofficial odds for our favourite Toronto Maple Leafs off-the-ice storylines in 2013
NHL hockey is finally here after a 119-day standoff between owners and the players union that robbed fans of nearly half the...
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Introducing: Fancy Franks, the new College Street spot for haute dogs
A funny thing happened when Angelos Economopoulos opened Fancy Franks Gourmet Hot Dogs on College Street, with no prior...
City News
Philip Preville: Shark fins, pet store puppies, plastic bags—why Toronto city councillors like to ban things
Rob Ford’s victories rarely last. In fact they only become more stunted as his mayoralty lurches along. For his opening salvo in...
Culture
TIFF Roundup: what the stars had to say about Toronto, its fest—and its hot dogs
Now that the red carpets, press conferences and, of course, parties have all wrapped up, it’s time to take stock of how things...
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VIDEO: watch a hot dog fly into space and then land and then get eaten
These are wondrous times to be alive. Behold: the proprietors of San Francisco’s Zog’s Dogs launched a humble hot dog, bun and...
Food & Drink
A stomach-churning tale of hot dog carts gone bad (yes, there are mice involved)
Street meat lovers may want to rethink their devotion to hot dogs thanks to a seriously gross Toronto Star article on vending cart...
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West coast firm launches Toronto street food app
Toronto’s insatiable appetite for street food has not gone unnoticed. Today, Vancouver-based firm Tatlow Park Software launched...
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Introducing: DonDon Izakaya, downtown’s new spot for authentic Japanese bar food
When we first told you about DonDon Izakaya last summer, it was slated for an October opening, but as such things go, it wasn’t...
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In a fit of hot dog hubris, Vancouver resto launches $100 bratwurst
Vancouver restaurant DougieDog Hot Dogs put out a press release this morning (which got picked up by the Canadian Press)...
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Introducing: The Hot ’n Dog, Parkdale’s coolest new lunch spot for the under-18 set
As hungry customers file into The Hot ’n Dog around noon, owner George Karpouzis greets regulars by name, inquiring after their...
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Truck-off: why Calgary’s food truck program works and Toronto’s doesn’t
Somehow, inventive, high-quality food served out of a truck has become one of the hottest food trends across North America over...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fusia Dog, Dinah Koo’s return to downtown
Dinah Koo makes no bones about her new hot dog joint: “We’ve got a pretty upscale dog—it’s certainly no street meat!”...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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